AAHHH Big Mistake!!

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My new Panasonic SCHT870 arrived today and it was all working fine except that when I went to play some DVD's I found out that it said it was playing the DVD with Pro Logic 2 and not DD 5.1 (even though the DVD has this option) So I presume that the system does not have a DD 5.1 decoder, despite it having 5 speakers and a sub.

Will I be able to exchange this system with another one as it has already been opened?

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you positive its a definate DD 5.1 source. on some of my dvd's (older 1's) it says DD but is a 2ch source so it will use PLII to convert using a matrix to give virtual 5.1. out of interest what dvd's were you trying

Guest

But I've looked in my manual and it only has 3 types of audio listed, these are:
Center focus
Super surround
Dolby Pro Logic II

So it doesn't even mention DTS or DD 5.1 as a default setting and when I go onto the audio settings it says playing in PL2 and gives me the choice of playing PL2 in either music or movie mode but there is no option to change to either DD 5.1 or DTS.

Guest

Well I can't see any option on any of the DVD's to change the audio mode.

On the Panasonic site for the system it says it has a DD decoder but it doesn't say that it is a 5.1 decoder so could this be the fault. And as I mentioned earlier, in the manual it gives details about PL2 but it doesn't say anything about DD 5.1 or DTS.

Guest

Ahh it's ok now I've sorted it out. The problem was that there is a button on the remote for PL2 but not for other audio types. So it seemed that when I turned PL2 off then that was it but in actual fact it was switching to DD.
Anyway thanks for all the help